Linguica
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OMG DONE http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/?id=12834
"Exquisite corpse" is the title for an old surrealistic style of making sentences by having people add words without knowing what came before. Anyway...
I've had an idea for a community WAD like this for a while and now is as good a time as any to try and do it.
Basically the idea is that we get a bunch of people who want to contribute. Each contributor will get a big square section of the level, which will be square or rectangular depending on how many people we get.
http://www.doomworld.com/linguica/example.png
So what happens is each person is given a 1024x1024 space to make a part of a level. The first person (1) makes a 1024x1024 area, and since his portion is in the top corner, the right and bottom sides will just sort of terminate in a bare wall or something, like cut off in the middle of a hallway or whatever.
Then the moderator (me or whoever) takes section 1 and passes it along to 2 and 4. The trick is that I only slice off, say, 64 units along the edge and pass that small margin along, so the next person has a small idea of what the last person was doing in terms of sector height, light level, flats, etc etc but doesn't exactly know what the theme was, so he makes up his own theme instead.
Then once 2 and 4 have made their 1024x1024 squares, I do the same thing and pass along margins to 3, 5, and 7, then once they're done I pass it along to 6 and 8, then finally 9.
The result is a 9-part WAD where none of the 9 contributors have any idea what the entire thing looks like until it's released.
I'm thinking that since this is just for fun I'll keep it Doom2- or maybe Boom-compatible, no ZDoom crap, scripting isn't needed for something like this.
If you're interested put your name here, if I get enough people who want to participate then we'll give it a shot and see what comes out the other end.
So let's see, so far we have:
- Linguica (DONE)
- Shtbag667 (DONE)
- Fiend (DONE)
- Darksoul (DONE)
- Cyb (DONE)
- Blackfish (DONE)
- Volteface (DONE)
- _5hifty (DONE)
- Scrum (DONE)
- chopkinsca (DONE)
- EarthQuake (DONE)
- boris (DONE)
http://www.doomworld.com/linguica/ec.png
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09-02-04 00:24 
